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•TJ.S. BALLOONISTS’ LANDING. HEIGHT OF 56.000 FT. ATTAINED. (United .Association—By Electric ■ Telegraph—Copyright.) BRIDGETOWN, (New Je^ey), November 21. Settle and Fordney landed sofe last night, though not .until this morning did the world learn of 'the fliers’ whereabouts. The .men remained in the balloon overnight. j Fordney said : “We had a delightful untoward trip except we came down so fast, we had to throw things over- 1 ■board as fast as we could in order to lighten the ship. We made a pretty rapid landing. Neither of us was hurt. We got out of the gondola, wrapped up in the balloon, a nd slept all night.- j Asked about the flight, . Fordney stated; “As normal ballooning it was very successful. We lost only a few photographic plates. We got up to over 56,000 feet. Both of us are dn perfect health.” LINDBERGHS REACH AZORES.
HORTA (Abores), November 21. Lindbergh .and Mr s Lindbergh arrived here, to-day, in their seaplane, after a hard battle against violent squalls and rainstorms on the 1000 miles flight from Lisbon, which required 547 minutes. They may continue the flight to the United 'States, via Bermuda. AMERICAN AIV’IATRIX SUICIDES. JACKSONVILLE (Florida), November 21. A series of notes which she left friends and relatives revealed that Mrs I Louise Stanton, a crippled aviatrix, and a member oi a prominent family, used an aeroplane as an unusual suicide device. Her notes said that she would borrow a craft, and, with a limited supply of petrol, would fly across the ocean to her inevitable end. An aeroplane, with about four hours of a supply of fuel, ds missing. A search has been .made by other aeroplanes, but it has been unsuccessful.
It is assumed that the woman carried out her own destruction as s h e had planned.
13' KILLED IN CRASH IN RUSSIA. WORLD’S LARGEST AEROPLANE. (Received this day at 9.40 a-m.) , MOSCOW, November 22. Russia’s, and the world’s largest aeroplane, K 7, crashed at Kharkov. Thirteen were killed, all being pilots and technicians who were making ob-
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